'Dancing Bug' Comic Dropped by 'Washington Post'

By: E&P Staff The Washington Post, which announced this week that it's shrinking its Sunday comics from two sections to one, is also dropping Ruben Bolling's "Tom the Dancing Bug" comic.

A Post editor said the weekly, large-format comic is being dropped for space reasons.

Bolling is very disappointed. "The Washington Post is one of my earliest clients, and when they took on the comic strip, no other daily newspaper was running it," he said. "They took a big chance on me."

The Universal Press Syndicate cartoonist added: "I get tons of e-mails from Post readers, and at my last appearance at a D.C. bookstore, there was a line out the door."

Bolling, whose award-winning strip runs in about 50 papers, hopes there'll be enough reader reaction for the Post to reconsider.

E&P was tipped off to the Post's decision by ComicsDC blogger Mike Rhode.